Tachelhit language
Tachelhit is a Berber language (Tachelhit: Taclḥit - ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ - تشلحيت) spoken by the Shilha people. There are 7,823,000 speakers worldwide, the majority in Morocco, where there are more than 7,000,000 speakers.
| Tachelhit | ||||
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| Taclḥit - ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ - تشلحيت | ||||
| Native to | Morocco; immigrant communities in France, Belgium, Canada and elsewhere | |||
| Region | Anti-Atlas, Souss, Draa, Ihahan, western part of High Atlas | |||
| Ethnicity | Iclḥiyn - Isusiyn | |||
| Native speakers | 7 to 8 millions worldwide.[1] (date missing) | |||
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| Writing system | Berber Latin alphabet, Berber Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-2 | shi | |||
| ISO 639-3 | shi | |||
| 300px Tachelhit-speaking areas | ||||
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Tachelhit Language Media
- WIKITONGUES- Abderrahman speaking Tachelhit.webm
Young man speaking Tachelhit, recorded in Cuba.
- Percent of Tashlhit speakers in Morocco by census 2004.png
Percentage of Shilha speakers per region according to 2004 census
- Communes of Tachelhit.png
Communes or municipalities where Tachelhit is majority in Morocco (year 2014)
- Muhammad Awzal.jpg
Shilha written in Arabic script: an 18th-century manuscript of al-Ḥawḍ by Mḥmmd Awzal.
Speech sample in Shilha (Chelha).
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Tachelhit language edition. |
